Effectiveness of Simultaneous Promting Procedure in Teaching Skills to Visually Impaired Adults in Their Daily Lives

The aim of this study was to determine whether teaching with simultaneous prompting procedure was effective in getting 3 visually impaired young adults acquire skills of folding sweater, sweeping carpet and dishwashing, and whether individuals retained their skills after 7, 14 and 21 days from the instruction. According to the findings, it was observed that teaching with simultaneous prompting procedure was effective in getting the participants gain their daily lives skills and helping the subjects retain their skills after 7, 14 and 21 days after the instruction. According to these findings, it seems that the teaching with simultaneous prompting procedure is effective in helping the subjects gain and maintain the daily living skills. In addition, the social validity findings of the research showed that mothers and partners of the visually impaired young adults had positive views towards teaching daily living skills with simultaneous prompting procedure.